The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum

This last weekend we visited Phil, Erin, Olivia, Sam, Charlie (the dog), and Elvis (the cat) in Alexandria, Virginia. We drove up on Friday night. On Saturday we slowly got ready and went to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum near Dulles Airport (it is connect to the one at the Mall in D.C). It was very cool to visit. Some of the highlights were McDonald's, the Enola Gay airplane, a space shuttle, and hundreds of other airplanes and helicopters. I think Andrew will appreciate it more when he is older. Right now he hates to be strapped down to anything especially to a stroller or car seat. All he wants to do is get down and explore for himself, which he enjoyed doing for a short period, but it wasn't really a great place to let him do that for too long. He spent most of the time on Patrick's shoulders. He was in good company as Sam spent a good chunk of time on Phil's shoulders also. I didn't think to pull out my camera until all the kids were already looking tired.

Side note: I didn't get any pictures of Andrew with Charlie or Elvis this trip, but he was really funny with them. He started out following Elvis around the house trying to catch him. Then he met Charlie who is a lot bigger than Elvis and Andrew for that matter. Andy was petrified of Charlie. Every time Charlie got near Andrew would startle and then he would crawl as fast as he possibly could for safety. If Charlie licked Andrew's feet when we were carrying him Andrew would pulls his feet up and commence to climb for higher ground. This fear of Charlie then turned into a fear of Elvis too. Although Andrew liked watching both animals he kept a safe distance. He did get brave enough once to crawl up to Charlie while Charlie was laying down and touch his paw. As soon as Charlie moved his head to look at Andrew, Andrew was off to a safer distance.